Ranunculus pensylvanicus |
Ranunculus gormanii |
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bristly buttercup, bristly crowfoot, Pennsylvania buttercup, renoncule de pennsylvanie |
Gorman's buttercup |
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Roots | never tuberous. |
thickened basally, glabrous. |
Stems | erect, never rooting nodally, hispid, base not bulbous. |
prostrate, sometimes rooting nodally, glabrous. |
Basal leaf | blades broadly cordate in outline, 3-foliolate, 1.6-7 × 3-9 cm, leaflets cleft, usually deeply so, ultimate segments narrowly elliptic, margins toothed, apex acute. |
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Proximal cauline leaf blades | narrowly to broadly ovate, 1.2-4 × 0.7-2 cm, base rounded, truncate or sometimes obtuse, margins entire or denticulate, apex obtuse or acute. |
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Inflorescences | bracts ovate or sometimes lanceolate. |
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Flowers | receptacle hirsute; sepals reflexed ca. 1 mm above base, 3-5 × 1.5-2 mm, ± hispid; petals 5, yellow, 2-4 × 1-2.5 mm. |
receptacle glabrous; sepals 5, spreading or reflexed from near base, 2-4 × 1-3 mm, glabrous; petals 5-6, 4-6 × 2-4 mm; nectary scales glabrous. |
Heads of achenes | cylindric, 9-12 × 5-7 mm; achenes 1.8-2.8 × 1.6-2 mm, glabrous, margin forming narrow rib 0.1-0.2 mm wide; beak persistent, broadly lanceolate or nearly deltate, straight or nearly so, 0.6-0.8 mm. |
hemispheric, 2-3 × 3-4 mm; achenes 1.2-2 × 1.2-1.4 mm, glabrous; beak lanceolate to subulate, straight or curved, 0.6-0.8 mm. |
2n | = 16. |
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Ranunculus pensylvanicus |
Ranunculus gormanii |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer (Jun–Aug). | Flowering spring–summer (May–Jul). |
Habitat | Stream banks, bogs, moist clearings, depressions in woodlands | Damp soil of meadows and stream banks |
Elevation | 0-1700 m (0-5600 ft) | 900-3300 m (3000-10800 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; AZ; CO; CT; DC; DE; IA; ID; IL; IN; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MT; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NM; NY; OH; PA; RI; SD; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NF; NS; NT; ON; PE; QC; SK
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CA; OR
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Discussion | Ojibwa tribes used Ranunculus pensylvanicus as a hunting medicine; the Potawatomi used it as an astringent for miscellaneous diseases (D. E. Moerman 1986). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Ranunculus gormanii is restricted to middle elevations in the Klamath and southern Cascade Mountains. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Ranunculus > sect. Ranunculus | Ranunculaceae > Ranunculus > subg. Ranunculus > sect. Flammula |
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Name authority | Linnaeus f.: Suppl. Pl., 272. (1782) | Greene: Pittonia 3: 91. (1896) |
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